Are you Loading the Facts to Upset Yourself?

In this blog, I introduce a fallacy to the list of “Cardinal Fallacies” in Logic-Based Therapy . I call this fallacy the Fact-Loading Fallacy because it involves embedding a value judgment (often unintentionally) in a premise of emotional reasoning that is supposed to report a fact. This fallacy can conceal, augment, legitimize, and sustain the self-disturbing effects of other fallacies in people’s emotional reasoning.

According to Logic-Based Therapy (LBT), people upset themselves by making self-destructive value judgments based on irrational or fallacious premises. LBT thus helps people to replace such fallacious emotional reasoning with rational reasoning, that is, reasoning that does not have fallacies in its premises.

What Is Emotional Reasoning?

Emotional reasoning is the re